AtD: John MacTaggart Ellis MacTaggart

[Mark Kohut]

‘The use of philosophy’, wrote McTaggart, ‘lies not in being deeper than
science, but in being truer than theology—not in its bearing on action, but
in its bearing on religion. It does not give us guidance. It gives us hope.’

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:51 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> was a philosopher at Trinity College, Cambridge, who enjoyed a
> considerable reputation in his day.
> I have never read any of his works, but I believe that he was an Hegelian;
> an exponent of a philosophy now
> out of favor, except in the form of Dialectical Materialism. ...
> But it is said to have been Mr. MacTaggart who offers the explanation that
> the word *runcible *means *tortoise-shell*
> [ basing this on two books *The Owl and the Pussycat *and *The Pobble who
> Has No Toes. ]*
> *                                                         ----T. S. Eliot *in
> "Can 'Education' Be Defined" collected in *To Criticize the Critic*
>
> Highly probable that this is the first place TRP learned of MacTaggart and
> I think I see how TRP uses him to
> satirize Marxism a bit and Hegelian semi-notions---history unfolding to a
> great Spirit [knowledge], say.
>
> In fact, he might be mocking The Phenomenology of Spirit with the
> Trespassers.
>
> THIS is where our history leads.
>
>